Teaching English to Children

  • 476

    Middle Age

    Middle Age
    The practical use of Latin skills and secular activities (in church) like administration an law.
  • 1401

    Fifteenth Century

    Fifteenth Century
    From 1401. A growing awareness of national identity and the intervention and spread of printing.
  • 1500

    Fifteenth Century (1500)

    Fifteenth Century (1500)
    Renaissance humanistics revitalised the study of classical languages and encouraged a deeper knowledge of the literature of antiquity.
  • Period: 1509 to 1547

    Henry VIII

    Standard grammar. Pupils were not admitted until they can prove they were reasonably literate. The work was like, the teacher there and were sessions of question-and-answer; heard sessions.
  • German Mother Tongue

    German Mother Tongue
    The first school at Koethen.
  • Period: to

    Various Issues

    Between these years, there were around four men highlighting facts about the current way to teach. Joshua Poole about latin (1646) and how the speech is important because of the meaning of it. Joseph Aickin said the importance of the mother tongue fifty years later. Daniel Duncan spoke about the significance of teach dead languages. Joseph Priestley introducing English Grammar and how hard it could be for someone to learn it and plus a foreign language.
  • John Locke

    John Locke
    The book "Some thoughts concerning education" was published as an advice on a modern system education to replace the "horrors of grammar".
  • Rousseau's book

    Rousseau's book
    Emile is a designed story that describes the education of a boy named Emile with tons of ideas and principles about learning. It's an important book that highlights the role of the teacher.